Photograph of Leer Lutheran Church — Photograph by Ian Poellet, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Norwegian Lutheran Church Complex

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.

From the record

“The Leer Lutheran Church, also known as the Norwegian Lutheran Church, is a church located at 10430 South Leer Road, near Leer in Long Rapids Township, Michigan. The church grounds include a parish house, cemetery, and pavilion, as well as the church itself.”
Wikipedia article Leer Lutheran Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 12 National Register listings published here for Alpena County · listed in 2013 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Address. 10430 S. Leer Rd. (Long Rapids Township), Leer, 49776
When was it listed? July 2013
Category. building
Township. Long Rapids township
National Register reference number. 13000478 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

11 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Norwegian Lutheran Church Complex between 2003 and 2020, burning about 62 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Debris and open burning	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Recreation and ceremony	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
6 June 2014	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ALPENA 0009
2 May 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ALPENA 13
3 April 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	LONG RAPIDS TOWNSHIP FD 0000003 - 2020
27 April 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	WILSON TOWNSHIP FIRE/RESCUE 29 - 2020
25 April 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	11 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	PRESQUE ISLE 03
24 April 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
23 April 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	PRESQUE ISLE 01
16 April 2005	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Alpena County

Storms near this property

1 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Leer, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2020: 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
August 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Leer	$4,000	Trees were downed onto power lines near Leer and Olsen Roads.

Every storm recorded in Alpena County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 13000478 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Alpena County	All 12 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.